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	Encyclopedia: George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Calvert was granted a Royal Charter in 1623 and his land grant was extended from Ferryland to Petty Harbour and from Conception Bay to west of Placentia Bay and was named the Province of Avalon.
		However, in 1625 Calvert was created Baron Baltimore, of Baltimore in the County of Longford, as a reward for his loyalty to the King and moved to his Irish estates.
		In 1628 Baltimore brought his wife and eldest son, Cecil, with him to settle, but became disenchanted due to a harsh winter which killed ten settlers and afflicted many others with scurvy, as well as constant harassment of the colony by French pirates and criticism by Puritans for his covertly establishing a Catholic colony.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/George-Calvert%2C-1st-Baron-Baltimore (1728 words)

	Exploring Maryland's Roots: Library: Cecil (Cecilius) Calvert, Second Lord Baltimore (1605-1675)
		Cecil Calvert was still a young man of 26 years when his father Sir George Calvert, Lord Baltimore, died.
		Cecil was never able to visit his colony because of the social and political problems in England.
		Cecil sent his son, Charles Calvert, to be Maryland’s Governor in 1661.
	mdroots.thinkport.org /library/cecilcalvert.asp (957 words)

	George Calvert 1st Baron Baltimore (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Calvert was granted a royal charter in 1623 and his land grant was extended from Ferryland to Petty Harbour and from Conception Bay to west of Placentia Bay and was given the name Province of Avalon.
		However, in 1625 Calvert was given the title of Baron Baltimore as a reward for his loyalty to the king.
		Calvert travelled to the colony in 1627 and 1628 took over as Proprietary Governor of Avalon from his agent.
	www.wikiverse.org /george-calvert-1st-baron-baltimore (362 words)

	Encyclopedia: Cecil Calvert (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Calvert, a Roman Catholic, struggled to maintain possession of Maryland during the English Civil War by trying to convince Parliament of his loyalty by appointing a Protestant, William Stone, as his governor.
		Calvert lost control of the colony for a brief period, however, due to Puritan pressure during the rule of Oliver Cromwell.
		Calvert was married to Anne Arundell, the daughter of Thomas Arundell, 1st Baron Arundell of Wardour, in 1627 or 1628.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Cecil-Calvert (311 words)

	Prince George's County Tricentennial (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Calvert eventually did submit his resignation, but, despite the pressures on him, he did not leave office solely for the obvious political reasons.
		Calvert was dealing with a new king, Charles I. King Charles was reluctant to make another grant, but Calvert was persistent.
		Thus, it was his eldest son, Cecil Calvert, who on June 20, 1632, received the charter and became the first proprietor of Maryland.
	www.pghistory.org /PG/PG300/begin.html (1739 words)

	The Calvert Chronicles
		When Cecil directed his brother that the subject of religion was not to be discussed at sea during the voyage to the new colony, his intention was obviously to prevent disaster and keep the peace, for Catholics were a minority even on their own ships.
		While Cecil made references to the natives in his letters (demanding, for instance, that they “surrender their rights to me this year”), his primary goal was to establish the colony as a Calvert mini-kingdom, mirroring England’s manors, estates, and nobility.
		Cecil’s descendants remained primarily British and aristocratic in outlook and upbringing, their numbers multiplying while the wealth remained the property of whomever was the current Lord Baltimore.
	home.insightbb.com /~pfaoro/CHRONICLES.HTM (14690 words)

	History of AA County
		Cecil Calvert and his father, George, who died two months prior to the charter, envisioned the colony as both an economic enterprise and a place where fellow Roman Catholic royalists could escape the religious strife that was increasingly prevalent in England.
		After the death of his father, Cecil Calvert was materially aided in his enterprise by his father-in-law, Thomas Arundell, first Baron Arundell of Wardour.
		Cecil Calvert, whose patronage came exclusively from the monarchy, became understandably concerned about his ability to maintain control over his colony.
	www.aacounty.org /AboutAACo/history.cfm (1531 words)

	Recreation And Parks Museum Division Homepage
		Calvert favored a locale south of Virginia but as opposition from Jamestown trader and future Secretary of State for Virginia, Captain William Claiborne, grew the request was changed to include lands situated north of the Potomac.
		Cecil Calvert remained firm and the issue was settled when the Jesuits revised their missions to solely include the converting of the Indians and establishing missions and schools.
		Cecil Calvert, enraged at the surrender of his authority in Maryland, ordered William Stone to seize the capitol and return the government to the proprietary.
	www.co.saint-marys.md.us /recreate/museums/cecilcalvert.asp (2232 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Cecil Calvert's portrait was singled out by the Yalies because it really is a great painting, displaying technical mastery and psychological depth.
		Cecil, who never actually visited the New World, inherited Maryland at the age of 26, and for the rest of his life he struggled to keep his grip on the new colony and--more nobly--to preserve it as a haven for Christians of every denomination.
		It was Cecil Calvert who dispatched the Ark and the Dove to establish the beachhead at St. Mary's City, under the governance of his brother Leonard, for whom nearby Leonardtown is named.
	www.citypaper.com /news/printready.asp?id=2419 (812 words)

	Calvert Background - Enoch Pratt Free Library - Baltimore, MD
		While George Calvert's father, Leonard, was reputed to be if Flemish descent, his mother's forebears, the Croslands, represented a family long resident in Yorkshire.
		In that county, about 30 miles northwest of the city of York, George Calvert was born and reared, and here in the days of his affluence he built a handsome house called Kiplin Hall.
		In this great house, surrounded by a large park, the later Calverts made their principal home till 1768 when the estate was sold by the last Lord.
	www.pratt.lib.md.us /exhibits/lordsbaltimore/calvertbackground.html (539 words)

	Sir George Calvert and the Colony of Avalon: Newfoundland and Labrador Heritage
		It was, surely, no coincidence that when Calvert withdrew from his Newfoundland adventure the fishery was in severe decline, the trade having dropped to about a third of its level in the balmy days of the early 1620s, when the Colony of Avalon had been planned.
		Despite the severe religious conflicts of the period, Calvert secured the right of Catholics to practice their religion unimpeded in the new colony, and embraced the novel principle of religious tolerance, which he wrote into the Charter of Avalon and the later Charter of Maryland.
		Calvert had left his Mansion House and the rest of his Ferryland establishment in the hands of agents.
	www.heritage.nf.ca /exploration/avalon.html (1189 words)

	George and Cecil Calvert, First and Second Lord Baltimore - History Regions and Cities
		George was born in 1580, in England, at Kipling, in the chapelry of Bolton.
		Cecil Calvert married the Catholic Anne Arundell, the daughter of Thomas Arundell in 1629.
		Cecil Calvert was raised a Catholic and attended Trinity College, Oxford, England.
	www.marylandtheseventhstate.com /article1002.html (1575 words)

	Portrait of Cecil Calvert - Enoch Pratt Free Library - Baltimore, MD
		Owing to the opposition of their friends of Virginia to the Maryland grant, Cecil found in necessary to remain in England to protect his interests, he therefore commissioned his brother Leonard to lead the colonists as governor.
		Thanks to the good counsel which Cecil gave his young brother, Governor Leonard Calvert, and the men selected to assist him in conducting the government, the colony's affairs prospered in spite of the trouble-makers, Claiborne and Ingle, and the insurrection of the Puritans.
		This portrait, which is signed by Gerard Soest, court painter to King Charles II, shows Cecil Calvert standing, holding in his right hand the map of Maryland which he published in 1635 to promote his colonizing plans.
	www.epfl.net /exhibits/lordsbaltimore/cecil.html (349 words)

	George and Cecilius Calvert: First and Second Lord Baltimore - History Celebrities
		Cecil, was the secretary of state and controller of the policy of King James I, (Ruled 1603-1625) and served in this capacity until his death in 1612.
		In 1617, George Calvert was knighted, and two years later, the king, in direct opposition to the desires of the Duke of Buckingham, appointed him the principal secretary of state.
		They were sent by Cecil Calvert, Second Lord Baltimore to oversee the reestablishment of Lord Baltimore's government which the radical Protestants, with the support of Virginia, had taken over in 1654.
	www.aboutfamouspeople.com /article1020.html (1629 words)

	Calvert Family (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Thomas CALVERT was born in 1617, possibly at Lygasory, Lurgan, Armagh, Ireland, the son of John Calvert and Grace ?.
		John CALVERT was born on 6 October 1648 at Stranmillis, Belfast, Ulster, Ireland, the son of Thomas Calvert and Jane Glassford.
		Mary CALVERT was alleged to be the daughter of Charles Calvert, third Lord Baltimore but she was more likely (and assumed herein to be) the daughter of John Calvert, born 1648 near Belfast, and Judith Stamper.
	www.vnla.com /vnl/gen/mcq/Calvert.htm (564 words)

	George Calvert 1st Baron Baltimore - Term Explanation on IndexSuche.Com
		However, in 1625 Calvert was given the title of Baron_Baltimore as a reward for his loyalty to the king.
		In 1628 Calvert brought his wife and eldest son, Cecil_Calvert, with him to settle but Calvert became disenchanchanted due to a harsh winter which killed ten settlers and afflicted many others with scurvy as well as constant harassment of the colony by French pirates and criticism by Puritans for his covertly establishing a Catholic colony.
		He applied for a new royal charter for what was to become the Province_of_Maryland and set out for the territory in 1629 leaving his son in charge of Avalon.
	www.indexsuche.com /George_Calvert,_1st_Baron_Baltimore.html (430 words)

	My Cecil Family (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		James Timothy was the son of Samuel Cecil (1783-1835) and Katherine Peavyhouse (1786-1806).Katherine was the daughter of Abraham Peavyhouse (1760-1810).
		Samuel Cecil was the son of Benjamin Sollers Cecil (1764-1815) and Priscilla Peggy Boylston (1765-1815).
		William Cecil was the son of Richard Cecil (1495-1553) and Jane Heckington (1494-1588).
	www.hometown.aol.com /mcampb9940/myhomepage (556 words)

	Riversdale Bookshelf: The House and its Families, UM Libraries
		During the next century, the Calvert family's history continued to be tied intimately to that of the growing colony.
		From the moment the Calverts established their home at Riversdale, until Rosalie's death in 1821, the mansion and its surrounding plantation bustled with numerous servants and slaves and a growing number of Calvert children.
		Although the Calverts did not entertain at home as much as many others of their social standing did, Rosalie did host dinners and parties for her select group of close friends.
	www.lib.umd.edu /RARE/MarylandCollection/Riversdale/essays/riversdale.html (3512 words)

	Washington DC City Pages: Tourism : History and Culture : Origins of the Native American Tribe of Piscataway
		Calvert came to Maryland as means of making it home for all people of the Catholic faith.
		Calvert's decree forced two problems for the Piscataways; the tribe practiced their own traditional religion, and could not interpret the English language to remotely understand a foreign faith.
		Therefore, the Piscataways had no idea what Cecil Calvert was talking about, but when he "composed a grammar, dictionary and catechism in [their] dialect," Algonquian.
	www.dcpages.com /Tourism/History_and_Culture/Piscataway.shtml (664 words)

	George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Calvert was a royal charter in 1623 and his land grant extended from Ferryland to Petty Harbour and Conception Bay to west of Placentia Bay was given the name Province of Avalon.
		1628 Calvert brought his wife and eldest Cecil Calvert with him to settle but Calvert disenchanchanted due to a harsh winter which ten settlers and afflicted many others with scurvy as well as constant harassment of colony by French pirates and criticism by Puritans for his covertly establishing a Catholic
		He applied for a new royal charter what was to become the Province of Maryland and set out for the territory 1629 leaving his son in charge of Calvert died in April 1632 two months his royal charter was officially granted.
	www.freeglossary.com /George_Calvert%2C_1st_Baron_Baltimore (387 words)

	Calvert Family History
		Family trees for the Williams family of Liverpool, the Chaffin family of Dorset, Wiltshire, and Liverpool, the Calvert family of Strabane Northern Ireland, and the Edge family of West Lancashire together with some family history relating to those...
		THE MACKALL FAMILY OF The Mackall Family of Calvert Co., Maryland is a study of the history and genealogy of the descendents of James Mackall of Scotland who emmigrated to America in about 1655.
		Calvert, has since completed the work originally started by her mother.
	www.genealogy-family-tree-history.com /Butts-Carlton/Calvert-Family-History.html (769 words)

	Boy in the 2nd Portrait - Enoch Pratt Free Library - Baltimore, MD
		Eminent specialists asserted that the dress of the adult figure indicated the reign of Charles II and fixed 1670 as the approximate date.
		Investigation has shown that Cecil, born 1667, eldest son of Charles, and grandson and namesake of Lord Baltimore, went with his father to England in 1669 and remained for one year, thus sustaining the 1670 theory.
		In 1640 he was only thirty-five years of age, while the face of this portrait is more nearly that of a man sixty-five, his age in 1670.
	www.epfl.net /exhibits/lordsbaltimore/boy.html (207 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Before the grant could be made the Lord Baltimore I died, thus his son Cecil Calvert, Lord Baltimore II took control the the land grant.
		In the summer of 1633 a group of colonist, mostly Catholics, was assembled by Cecil Calvert and sail abord the
		The coloney was governed, not by the Cecil Calvert, but by his brother Leonard, as the Lord Baltimore II never left England.
	members.aol.com /robscoins/collect/maryland.htm (311 words)

	Celebrating Lord Baltimore's City
		Cecil Calvert, second Lord Baltimore (I606-1675) named the colony for Queen Henrietta Maria, consort of the then king of England, Charles l, who granted the charter for the colony in 1632.
		After Lord Baltimore's reinstatement to rule, Governor Charles Calvert tried to assure the assembly in 1722 that Baltimore stood to them "as a bountyfull Indulgent Father toward a dutiful Deserving son." But Baltimore's veto of acts passed by the assembly, and attempts to reassert his rights such as taxing exports of tobacco, alienated the colonists.
		Charles Benedict Calvert was a Congressman at the time of the Civil War and the owner of Riverdale mansion in Prince George's County.
	www.baltimoremd.com /monuments/lordbalt.html (1157 words)

	Calvert And Maryland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Sir George Calvert, who had been private secretary to Lord Cecil in Queen Elizabeth's reign, and also held office under King James, upon retiring was created Baron of Baltimore in Ireland, and purchased part of Newfoundland, which he called Avalon.
		To the northward of them was the estuary of the Patuxent River, meaning "the stream at the little falls." St. Mary's County is the peninsula between the Patuxent and the Potomac, terminating at Point Lookout, and a quiet and restful farming country to-day.
		Leonardstown, on the Patuxent, named after Leonard Calvert, is the county-seat; but the ancient village of St. Mary's, the original colony and capital, afterwards superseded by Annapolis, still exists, though only a few scattered bricks remain to mark the site of the old fort and town.
	www.oldandsold.com /articles24/america-25.shtml (384 words)

	Documents relating to Ferryland, 1597-1726: Colony of Avalon
		Leonard, George, and Henry Calvert to be paid unto them at their several ages of one and twenty, respectively.
		ITEM I do give and bequeath to my youngest son Phillipp Calvert the sum of three hundred pounds [£ 300], to be paid unto him at the age of one and twenty.
		And, for his education and maintenance in the meantime, I do order and require my eldest son Cecil Calvert to take care, and be at the charge thereof.
	www.heritage.nf.ca /avalon/history/documents/letter_16.html (631 words)

	Durgan
		* Eleanore Nelly Calvert was born in 1758.
		Calvert was born in 1590 in Tidkinow, Skelton-in-Cleveland, Yorkshire, England.
		Thomas Calvert (Quaker) was born 1617 Lygasory, Lurgan, Armagh, Ireland and died 1685 New Castle Co, Del. He was the son of John Calvert and wife Grace.
	theodore.l.durgan.home.att.net /d8.htm (1147 words)

	George And Cecil Calvert George Calvert was a ...
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		Cecil and his brothers went on an expedition in New England and finally founded a religious refuge.
		The Calvert's made a treaty and in it they defined all of their land claims.
	www.instant-essays.com /religion/george-and-cecil-calvert.shtml (162 words)

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